Better Call Saul gave Breaking Bad star Bob Odenkirk his own series as egocentric criminal defense attorney Saul Goodman. As the series comes to a conclusion in its sixth season, the question of whether Breaking Bad stars Bryan Cranston and Aaron Paul will reprise their roles as Walter White and Jesse Pinkman seems to be finally getting answered.

The final season of the series will be split into two halves, with the first episodes premiering on April 18 and the second half of the season following in July. In the run-up to the first episode of season 6 arriving, creators Vince Gilligan and Peter Gould have given the best indication yet that these final episodes will see the series crossover with Breaking Bad in the way everyone hoped for from the start.

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Speaking to Variety, Gilligan stopped just short of outright confirming that Bryan Cranston and Aaron Paul will appear in the final episodes of the series in some way, saying:

Although Gould added that if there was going to be a crossover then:

Of course, at the beginning of Breaking Bad, Walter White is a respected chemistry teacher, while Paul is in and out of trouble on a number of occasions, but where the two shows will interconnect is not yet clear. However, while many wondered if the 2019 movie El Camino: A Breaking Bad Film would be the last time we would see Walter and Jesse, it seems that there is just one more appearance to come to fully complete the Breaking Bad story.

Better Call Saul Suffered Delays Due To Covid and the On-Set Collapse of Bob Odenkirk.

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Filming on the sixth and final season of Better Call Saul was originally set to begin in September 2020. Of course, the ongoing uncertainty around the Covid pandemic meant that this was pushed back a number of times, finally commencing in March 2021. The effects of the pandemic became apparent when instead of the 9 days taken to film an episode in the previous seasons, this time around that was extended to around three weeks. In all, the original eight-month shoot ended up taking eleven months, finally coming to an end in February 2022.

In the middle of filming, the shoot ran into another lengthy delay when star Odenkirk was rushed to hospital after suffering a heart attack. While the production continued where possible, things were not able to get moving fully until the actor had taken a couple of months out to recover from his unexpected and frightening ordeal. With the final season now ready to roll out, early reviews have already suggested that just like Breaking Bad, Better Call Saul is going to go out on a high.